How one frustrated golfer built a tour-quality putting mat that’s helping amateurs practice at home the same way the pros do — and why the quality of your practice surface matters more than you think.

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. There’s an old golf cliche that says you “drive for show [and] putt for dough.” ...

The claw. It was a putting grio that used to be seen as a kind of act of desperation, but now more and more players keep switching to the claw—and it keeps working. Justin Rose is perhaps the best ...